This selection is a little gem with dense compact landscape form, purple-tinged, dark green foliage, and a profusion of ruby red flowers that will keep your neighborhood hummingbirds happy! Late May blooming through June, it’s an easy care, disease-free beauty.
One look at this plant’s name will tell you its most outstanding feature: incredible deep, dark foliage color! ‘Minor Black’ has such deep red foliage that it truly does look black until you get close up making it a plant that will standout from the rest of the crowded red foliated Weigela that are out there on the market. Even better, its dense, spreading form makes it a perfect plant for any sunny, small space or even a container on a sunny deck, showing its darkly handsome foliage without fade throughout the growing season with the bonus of deep red flowers that contrast nicely with the foliage starting in mid May and continuing into mid June. ‘Minor Black’ is hardy, easy to grow and a little off the beaten track for those who dare to be different in their landscape!
When ‘Ghost’™ flushes in the spring, its foliage looks like that of any other nondescript Weigela sporting a medium green color that facelessly blends into the rest of the green landscape. Dark red flowers appear in late May in abundance to attract local butterflies and hummingbirds with their striking color and tubular shape but the real show begins after its bloom has passed. As weeks go by, ‘Ghost’™ sees its bland foliage magically transform to iridescent, ghostly, butter yellow as the summer progresses. It’s a metamorphosis that few plants can match and one that will change this former wallflower into the star of the summer garden. ‘Ghost’™ even reblooms from time to time in the summer adding more color to any sunny or partially shaded area.
What a variegated masterpiece! The foliage on this selection will have you begging for more with strong, bright yellow-edged leaves that really show off. But wait until ‘French Lace’™ flowers! The massive amounts of deep, dark red flowers are nothing like you’ve ever seen on a variegated Weigela before! ‘French Lace’™ is truly a shining, emerging landscape star.
‘Sugar Baby’ is the standard for small watermelons in the garden featuring dark green rinds and classic watermelon, red sweet flesh when cut open. ‘Sugar Baby’ produces a high yield of 12lb, approximately 8″ diameter fruit that your family will love!
The Wasabi plant consists of a rhizome with clusters of large, long-stemmed heart shaped leaves and white flowers that blossom early spring. Only true wasabi provides all of these incredible health benefits, so beware of imposters! Rhizomes are mature and ready to eat when they’re about seven or eight inches long.
An aggressive, superbly low maintenance groundcover, this selection forms a dense mounding mat of shiny, strawberry-like foliage that comes alive with loads of sunny, bright yellow flowers from early May to mid-June. This evergreen loves tough areas and is perfect planted in groups.
Seyval Blanc’ is a great ‘back to the future’ plant…it has been around for over 80 years, a French import that has thrived in Europe and the United States, and is still one of the great backyard grapes that no one knows! This vigorous selection is extremely cold hardy and very productive yielding considerable amounts of tapering bunches of small, white Grapes in mid to late September. The best part about ‘Seyval Blanc’ is its versatility for your home edible landscape. Its fruit is exceptional for fresh eating with a pleasant sweet taste with a sharp bite at the finish making it an excellent choice for meals either in the main course or dessert. It also is one of the best backyard Grapes for wine production creating a white wine with intense flavors and aroma. Like all Grapes, ‘Seyval Blanc’ needs the support of a strong trellising system and loves well-drained soil in sunny, good airflow location for best production
Cold weather vigor is this Grape’s calling card making it one of the best to grow in more northern edible gardens. While a strong grower, ‘Foch’ does not skimp on the fruit, producing narrow, long bunches of vibrant, deep purple Grapes that mature in the early seasons, usually in early to mid-September. Even though ‘Foch’ produces fruit that is tasty for dessert use, it’s in the area of wine making that this Grape excels. The fruit produced by this hybrid of American and French Grapes yields a wine of light to medium structure that features the taste of dark beerries that is destined to become a staple at your dinner! Since ‘Foch’ is a wide ranging plant, make sure you provide a strong wooden trellis structure to support it and expose it to the great airflow it needs to be healthy and productive.